World Cricket II

[ajithfederer]

Your team is being called United-nations XI in various forums . Why it is not ODD when a Kiwi plays for a POM Side??. What has immigration got to do with recruiting sports talent from other countries?. There is a distinct difference between those two. I wouldn't mind Canadian born Indian Immigrants playing for Canada or for that matter like (Samit Patel) for England. You guys (English) dont play in a LEVEL playing field and you Indeed have an unfair advantage wrt other cricketing sides when you recruit other countries best talent. Ninga hire pannum podhu ODD illainna naanga pannalum adhu ODD illa than.

It is Indeed ODD that players from various countries when they play for England. People play for pride in National sides. That is no more the case wrt England. It is a case of America buying Olympic Golds with African American talent during the yester years. I think (and may be KG can help me here) in more universal sports like Football this is not allowed by major sports bodies. Indha nadharithanam is allowed only because of Imperial cricket conference being run by ECB and CA.

nyAya dharmam language and all only you are using here. sikka mAttEn

maththapadi England-ku vaaila viral vachchA kadikka theriyAdhunnu naan sonna maadhiriyum, thiruppiyum present paNNa pArkkureenga. Unselected.

I am talking case by case.

You can, like Alan Border, call it names: call it the Empire team instead of England team. I guess that is your fundamental problem. It does not irk me at all.

This 'import' - to use your word- is something that's been happening always, no? People from the colonies go and play in/for England. I won't consider it odd for say a NewZealander to play for England, but I would certainly feel so were he to play for India. That is all I am saying.

You don't get people from SAfrica, in general, migrating to India, do you? If and when that happens, a cricket migration won't seem odd. But tomorrow BCCI puts together an IPL like assortment in the India team, it would be odd. Imagine India having a team pace attack where a Maori and a Zulu share the new ball - you will consider it fair (hey if Eng can do it, every team should be able to, level playing field etc.). And if rule changes prevent that, you will call it Eng changing rules because it is no longer convenient to them, or no longer a benefit exclusive to them (switch hit-ku sonneengaLE ).

I get what you are saying but don't sync with your PoV.


Name Five (10 marks)

nambikkaikaaga illeenga saar. edhai solreenga-nu therinjikkalaamnu dhaan saar.
crumbling day 1 pitch-ai defend paNNeenga. adhuvum oru isai-nu..
It would be useful for me to if many of the excesses are like that.

I know of one that I posted it here.
I heard Eng cooked up a sudden law during an India tour preventing a one-side packed field - which was India's strategy with the spin quartet. That is an example of the kind of arbitrary, one-sided change in rule, brought in with a misuse of power, to exclusively benefit England.

It would be good to know others that fall into the above category and which fall into the: horridly biased 'opposition to a perfectly legal aluminium bat' category.